Monthly Archives: August 2008

14 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Going From Entrepreneur To Employee

I've been fortunate (?!?) to have the experience of returning to the world of full-time employment having spent the past few years running my own business. I say 'fortunate' because having gone both ways (employee to entrepreneur + entrepreneur to employee), I'd have to say this way round is far, far harder and it's good to ...

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The Key That Helps You Turn Your Job Into A Business: A 101 Guide To Business Processes

Over at The Growing Life, Clay writes about why the job-ification of your passion can be a shortcut route to hating your life. In the post Clay writes about the importance of being laser-focused and ‘geeking out’ on business models and processes if you are ever going to make a commercial success from ...

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An Update, A New Brand And A Call For Help

Whoops...there goes another week and no new posts on this blog. This time round though, I'm not going to start by moaning about how stressed out I am by this project, oh no - instead I've got some exciting news to share... We have been busy working on our new professional brand which we're launching officially ...

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Cool Examples of Completely Different Brands From The Same Company

A cool Portuguese-inspired coffee bar in South Africa; 100% staffed by men. Whenever an order goes through, all baristas shout something unintelligible which sounds cool. A cool healthy food place in South Africa; 100% staffed by ...

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The 3 Underestimated Benefits of Being An Employee

With the blogosphere filled with entrepreneur blogs, small business blogs and 'how to leave the corporate world'-type blogs, it's sometimes easy to forget that being an entrepreneur or business owner isn't always a bed of roses. My return to the ranks of being an employee - albeit temporarily - has as you know, been slightly ...

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If I Ever Consider Coming Back to Consulting…

...please shoot me! This is a quick drive-by post to say that no, I haven't disappeared from here but on account of several late nights this week having to get some deliverables out of the door and to a client, I am officially exhausted and my eyes are in pain! Hopefully after a weekend of working on ...

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The 2 Key Reasons Most Businesses Struggle

Those of you running your own business and loving it, can I'm sure imagine the intense dread you might feel if you had to consider going back to to the corporate world and once again becoming a cubicle slave. As most of you will know, I'm currently re-living my own professional past doing some business consulting ...

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